Senior Backend Developer

**The Senior Developer role at Angry Creative**
- This is a remote position. _

Our best Senior Developers drive what we can do as an agency, and use their experience to lead teams in delivering technical excellence for our clients. You will be a key part of a Unit, working with customer-facing roles to design technical solutions, promoting best practices internally and externally, and helping to oversee the successful technical delivery of client projects.

As a senior WordPress developer here at Angry, you will likely have expertise across a number of programming languages and frameworks, with a WordPress and WooCommerce focus. Like our technical team, you will likely have enjoyed exploring opportunities and technologies outside the standard WordPress stack - including React, PWAs, Elasticsearch, Laravel, VueJS, Svelte, Task runners, CI/CD and advanced API integrations.

Typical activities include:

- Leading the development of WordPress and WooCommerce projects
- Building WP plugins and themes
- Scoping and estimating work with Client Success Managers and clients
- Presenting work, ideas and proposed solutions to internal and external stakeholders
- Coaching and mentoring members of the team
- Problem-solving and testing proposed solutions with MVPs and prototypes
- Reporting on project development activity in team stand-ups and client meetings
- Collaborating with design and development departments to create effective workflows on projects
- Reviewing code and quality checking solutions
- Contributing to our internal products, and open source projects
- Representing Angry Creative at industry events and conferences

You will be an integral part of your team (called units here), which consist of a Unit Manager, Developers, Designers, Solution Architects and Client Success managers. Each morning you’ll attend a Unit Stand Up to ensure that you have the support you need to get your work done and to flag any potential blockers.

We encourage an environment where everyone is free to speak up and everyone's voice is heard: communication and collaboration are things we insist on from all team members.

**What we look for in people**

We value and encourage an open mind. It is important to us that you are supportive to both clients and colleagues. We want you to be creative and suggest solutions to problems that might appear, and listen to other people’s input. It’s also important to us that you are flexible and adapt easily as we are a business that grows and moves quickly.
- Strong problem-solving skills, naturally inquisitive and someone that enjoys finding solutions
- Someone that loves learning and sharing knowledge with others and actively seeks out support from the wider team to help improve their skills
- You’ll understand what’s needed now and also have an eye on the future, and want to contribute to this

**Career Progression**
- We try to find specialisms for each person within our technical team, which combines their interests with the needs of the company. Such as a coding language or methodology, or coaching and mentoring.
- Senior Developers will often progress towards the Solution Architect role, which focuses on project planning and scoping and leading the technical implementation of projects.

**Company Benefits**
- Flexible working: We have flexible working hours to ensure a work-life balance. Everyone is free to manage their own day depending on priority.
- Team socials: Each month we like to celebrate all our great work with a team social.
- Annual company retreat: This year's retreat was held in Portugal where we attended WordCamp Europe
- Education and development: You are in control of your learning and development. Working together with your manager to plan out what areas you’d like to focus on. We have Hungry Creative sessions presented by members of the team or external speakers.
- Home office: We offer home office setup allowances.

**Meet our Developers**

Too often there’s a gap between expectations set in job ads, and the reality experienced by our team. So, here are some quotes from some of our current amazing team of Developers & Solution Architects based throughout Europe and Africa:
**Culture**

‘I’ve worked with several digital agencies in my time, and Angry Creative is by far the most organised, caring and forward-thinking of them all.’

‘I haven’t the faintest clue what Sunday night angst is since I started at Angry Creative In my previous life, I would walk around with a ball of stress. Here I’ve had more responsibility and expectations put on me but thanks to the structure, processes and support system that ball of stress hasn’t come back’

‘There is a good effort to make sure everyone feels connected. Mental health is important, and Angry Creative understands this’

‘Management works with the team instead of against each other. Sometimes there is a bit of chaos but at the end of it, you receive the support you need.

‘Flexible wor